Honey 2 is not an improvement on its prequel

Now that Jessica Alba has left for other, possibly more upmarket climes, Katerina Graham plays Maria, the hip-hopper par excellence in Bille Woodruff's second instalment of the Honey series.

It is not an improvement. But then neither is the film, which has Maria on parole from juvenile detention and determined to avoid her former boyfriend and his 718 dance crew.

Instead, she takes a job at a grocery store, cleans floors at the gym where she once taught and decides to train the newly formed HDs to compete against 718 in a television contest. Natch, the HDs win the final battle for a place on a world tour and Maria gets the boy she wants (Randy Wayne) as well.

Nearly every dance film cliché is done to death here, but at least the hip-hoppery is spectacular, played out before a panel of judges who make Cheryl Cole look like a genius.